THE Democratic Alliance (DA) in Limpopo has written to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) over the conduct of Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba towards a Zimbabwean patient.
This comes after a video showing Ramathuba scolding a Zimbabwean patient at a hospital in Bela Bela.
During the video, Ramathuba asks the Zimbabwean patient what is he doing in Bela-Bela when they are supposed to be with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
She later lashed out at the patient for being an illegal migrant and blaming foreign nationals for “killing her health system”.
“You are even illegal, and you are abusing me, this is unfair. I can’t go to Zimbabwe and get health care, do you think they will allow me to operate? It is for their own people [citizens]. When you guys are sick I am hearing these days that you say let us cross the Limpopo river, there is
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